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Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: B5 Backbiting from actors wins no fans here
Date: 10 Dec 2002 22:00:36 GMT
From: jmsatb5@aol.com (Jms at B5)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated

>With a) in mind, and given that you ended up getting another season
>after SiL was in the can... *did* you feel your suspension of disbelief
>was broken?  If so, how did you work around it?

By making sure the episode was never finished (final editing) until after we'd
finished shooting S5.  I let it sit in the Avid, unfinished, until I was ready.
 That also prevented WB or anyone else from getting it and having the cut hit
the streets in an unauthorized way, which I felt could happen if the cut was
just laying around for a year.  By keeping it all in the system, in pieces, it
(and I) was safe.

 jms

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